{"id":26145,"date":"2013-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/eric-batista-from-cuba-469\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:56:34","slug":"eric-batista-from-cuba-469","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/prayer\/eric-batista-from-cuba-469\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Batista from Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Eric Batista isn&#8217;t your ordinary 19-year-old Cuban. He&#8217;s a Christian refugee, and his family were forced to leave their home country because of the long campaign of government persecution they endured.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason for this persecution? The simple fact that Eric&#8217;s mother is a member of a group which protests on behalf of political prisoners, many of whom are in prison in connection with their Christian faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric and his family are now safe in the USA. And after everything he&#8217;s been through, Eric&#8217;s still upbeat and positive, trusting in God, and inspiring the people who meet him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This week please:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Pray that God would continue to bless Eric as he adjusts to his new life,<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that Eric and his family would find emotional and spiritual healing from the brutalities they&#8217;ve experienced,<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for God to use each member of the family for good works,<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to bring freedom for all Cubans who suffer because of their faith.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Batista isn&#8217;t your ordinary 19-year-old Cuban. He&#8217;s a Christian refugee, and his family were forced to leave their home country because of the long campaign of government persecution they endured.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","regions":[140,137],"class_list":["post-26145","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry","regions-cuba","regions-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40815,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26145\/revisions\/40815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}